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Author Helen DeWitt had the social media platform X abuzz after posting that she turned down a $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize. DeWitt, best known for her 2000 novel, The Last Sam ...
Last week, Vice President JD Vance announced that he will publish a book about his conversion to Catholicism. The cover of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, which Harper plans to release in ...
One of the unique aspects of Employment Ethics that was important to me was that it was meant to be shared and to start a conversation. Each chapter can be a stand-alone discussion without prior ...
The winners of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards have been revealed, the annual literary prizes given to honor “literature that contributes to our understanding of race and our appreciation of the ...
Kirkus launched its new Indie Awards today, with independent authors invited to submit their work for the prizes created to “celebrate the excellence, breadth, and depth of independently published ...
Dunham’s Famesick, which chronicles her career as creator of the hit television series Girls, along with her relationships and health struggles, was published Tuesday by Random House. In a starred ...
The Whiting Awards, which come with cash prizes of $50,000 for each winner, were established in 1985. Previous winners include Jorie Graham, David Foster Wallace, Li-Young Lee, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ...
A new Apple TV series, starring Elle Fanning, ably adapts Rufi Thorpe’s offbeat, Kirkus-starred novel of single motherhood.
The Canadian author and illustrator Jon Klassen has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in children’s literature. Klassen is best known fo ...